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Chatter #129 – Andrew Allison on Freedom, Inalienable Rights, and Classical Liberalism

Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Andrew Allison, head of campaigns at The Freedom Association was my guest on today’s show. The Freedom Association is a non-partisan, centre-right, classically liberal campaign group who “seek to challenge all erosion of civil liberties and campaign in support of individual liberty, freedom of expression, and free…

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Chatter #128 – Jen Perelman on Julian Assange, American Imperialism and the Manufactured Culture War

Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Jen Perelman, former congressional candidate and host of JENerational Change was my guest on today’s show. I first heard of Jen when she decided to primary Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the DNC, and one of the individuals involved in the Hillary Clinton DNC debacle. Although…

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Our Divided Society – Chapter 4

Deep-seated inequalities continue to cast long jagged shadows over the map of England. – Alex Niven We’ve learnt how technology has helped advertisers and political campaigners alike to understand us and how social media is exacerbating societal divisions. We’ve also looked at how the press has helped exacerbate anti-immigrant and anti-EU sentiment and…

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Chatter #127 – Mat Hope On Tufton Street, Think Tanks, Brexit and Climate Deniers

Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Mat Hope, the editor at DeSmogUK, a UK based climate/environmental news site producing some of the best investigative journalism surround Brexit and climate change in the UK. Mat and I chatted with his colleague Chloe Farand on the climate denial lobby and their pushing of a hard…

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The Weaponized Propaganda Machine – Chapter 5

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. – George Orwell, 1984 As we’ve already seen, data gathered by companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter allows them to target adverts based on our every click. They can build detailed profiles about our personality,…

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Chatter #125 – Jenin Younes on The Left Wing Case Against Lockdowns

Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Jenin Younes was my guest on this episode of Chatter. Jenin is a contributor at AIER and a New York City Defender. She is also one of the few left wing lockdown sceptics that I have encountered over the past year and believes that lockdowns constitute a…

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